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🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On the occasion of Pope Francis's U.S. tour, we offer a primer on the pontiff.

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0:00.0	I'm guessing, oh, wise podcast listener, that you know Pope Francis has arrived in the U.S.
0:05.4	He's visiting the White House Wednesday, making the first ever addressed to Congress in a joint session Thursday,
0:11.4	and then touching down at JFK for a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple,
0:15.5	followed by a mass of masses in Philadelphia on Saturday before departing Sunday for Rome.
0:22.1	As you follow his progress on whichever GPS-powered Pope tracker you favor,
0:27.6	and there are a few of them, we thought you might like a quick Pope Primmer.
0:32.9	This is a piece we aired at the end of 2013 when the media were just catching up with the big star in the
0:39.2	Vatican. It's pretty omniscient, if I do say so myself. What tops the list of what Facebook's
0:47.0	1.2 billion users are talking about? Who in a summer survey by Tuplomacy was deemed the most
0:53.8	influential man on Twitter? Who, according to summer survey by Tuplomacy, was deemed the most influential man on Twitter?
0:56.0	Who, according to Global Language Monitor, was the most talked about man on the Internet?
1:01.9	Who gets coverage and Gawker and GQ?
1:05.2	Still don't know?
1:06.7	Well, who was just named Time Magazine's Person of the Year?
1:11.3	Come on! Who loves Tango? And sinners?
1:15.2	No, the real question is what religion has the stone-cold coolest leader?
1:21.0	Wait, wait, don't tell me is Peter Sagle is making it too easy.
1:24.5	It was a thrill for the crowds.
1:27.0	Pope Francis walking out on the street to press
1:29.6	the flesh. The embrace that has gone viral, Pope Francis laying his hands on a disfigured man.
1:35.5	Pope Francis blasted church hardliners for focusing on small-minded rules that are divisive,
1:42.2	like abortion, gay marriage, and contraception.
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